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Giant features leading junior team gymnasts of Romania. The film is shot in two boarding schools for artistic gymnastics in Onesti and Deva. A soundtrack of interviews with the gymnasts accompanies images of them training and of empty gymnasiums. Archive film footage starting from 1970s and clips from a feature fiction film shot in the same locations reveal not only a continuity in picturing this sport, but also the structures of recording it.

Salla Tykkä (born 1973) is a visual artist who works with film and video since 1996. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki 2003 and participated in the Venice Biennale 2001. Her solo exhibitions include: BALTIC Arts Centre, Gateshead 2013; EX3, Florence, 2011; Hayward Gallery Project Space, London, 2010; Norrköping Art Museum, Norrköping, 2009. She has participated in numerous group shows in museums and public institutions among others: Making Space. 40 Years of Video Art, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, 2013; La La La Human Steps, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, 2013; 17th Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2010; Momentum, Moss, 2010. Salla Tykkä’s films have been shown at international film festivals like: 36th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 2007; 21st Brest European Short Film Festival, Brest, 2006; Tribeca Film Festival, New York, 2003; International Short Film Festival Ober- hausen, Oberhausen, 2003 and 2002.